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单词 dowse
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dowse1

verb daʊzdaʊz
[no object]
  • 1Practise dowsing.

    water is easy to dowse for
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Ms. Byron: your article on the woman who claims she can dowse, interests us greatly.
    • I know mechanics who dowse to determine mechanical problems in cars, and other machinery and maintenance workers who use dowsing to find underground water lines, leaks, and electrical problems.
    • In the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine appears this article, which asks, ‘Can homeopaths detect homeopathic medicines by dowsing?’
    • I can tell you of Ph.D. physicists who believe that they can dowse, and who endorse dowsing rods and free-energy machines.
    • Periodically, a player will get to dowse for water.
    • Do not worry, young Alouette, you may be lost now, however just take the pendant and dowse, it will show you the way.
    • I think I might have to resort to dowsing for it (I'm serious!)
    • I also have no doubt that when practiced by someone with a good practical knowledge of field archaeology, dowsing with rods can sometimes hit the jackpot.
    • Now he happily dowses for earth-radiation with a pair of rods.
    • He also uses a crystal to dowse for poisons and blockages in the body, using clients’ nail clippings.
    • Watching the display, Appelbaum sweeps the antenna slowly, left to right, up and down, dowsing for the source of the signal, which seems to be emanating from an upper floor of a hotel.
    • Last week as I was walking back from lunch with a physicist friend, he pointed out a guy about 50 feet away from us, who was using two long thin sticks to dowse for who-knows-what.
    • Now we move on to the main feature, dowsing for water.
    • This gentleman, a Sea Bee, claimed that he could dowse for gold!
    • Since at the time I could not dowse with a pendulum, I had no way of confirming if I was successful.
    • Here are two examples - one from Australia, the other from Germany - that involve dowsing to supposedly locate or provide information about alleged archaeological sites.
    1. 1.1with object Search for or discover by dowsing.
      he dowsed a spiral of energy on the stone
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The moments of small victory are often limited to a shopping cart that stays when it is told to or sending a small hope before dowsing the wine aisle for a good vintage.
      • Boomtowns sprang up through the United States, particularly in the West, as fast as entrepreneurial spirits could dowse a whiff of extractable resource hiding below the earth's surface.
      • The experts in this dowsers' society say you can successfully dowse anything at all.
      • So one Sunday morning soon after sunrise we entered the field and made our examinations, buried the bottles and dowsed the formation.
      • Temple assures clients that the stones are the real thing; he knows because he dowsed them with a magic pendulum, of course.
      Synonyms
      search, look, seek, hunt, go after

Derivatives

  • dowser

  • nounˈdaʊzə
    • Most psychics and dowsers, for example, do not even realize that they need to do controlled tests of their powers to rule out the possibility that they are deceiving themselves.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • And, as usual in such matters, none of the participating astrologers, clairvoyants, ‘face readers,’ or dowsers who failed the tests, believe that their own claimed abilities are imaginary.
      • Every dowsing organization, or dowser, that we have contacted, has ignored this offer.
      • Controlled experiments set up to test the abilities of dowsers have shown that dowsers are no better at finding hidden substances than chance would predict.
      • The lack of testing under controlled conditions explains why many psychics, graphologists, astrologers, dowsers, New Age therapists, and the like, believe in their abilities.

Origin

Late 17th century: of unknown origin.

Rhymes

douse, Gauss, grouse, house, Klaus, louse, Manaus, mouse, nous, Rouse, souse, spouse, Strauss arouse, blouse, browse, carouse, Cowes, drowse, espouse, house, Howes, rouse

dowse2

verbdaʊzdaʊz
  • variant spelling of douse
 
 

dowse1

verbdaʊzdouz
[no object]
  • 1Practice dowsing.

    water is easy to dowse for
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Last week as I was walking back from lunch with a physicist friend, he pointed out a guy about 50 feet away from us, who was using two long thin sticks to dowse for who-knows-what.
    • This gentleman, a Sea Bee, claimed that he could dowse for gold!
    • I can tell you of Ph.D. physicists who believe that they can dowse, and who endorse dowsing rods and free-energy machines.
    • He also uses a crystal to dowse for poisons and blockages in the body, using clients’ nail clippings.
    • I also have no doubt that when practiced by someone with a good practical knowledge of field archaeology, dowsing with rods can sometimes hit the jackpot.
    • Now we move on to the main feature, dowsing for water.
    • I think I might have to resort to dowsing for it (I'm serious!)
    • Watching the display, Appelbaum sweeps the antenna slowly, left to right, up and down, dowsing for the source of the signal, which seems to be emanating from an upper floor of a hotel.
    • In the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine appears this article, which asks, ‘Can homeopaths detect homeopathic medicines by dowsing?’
    • I know mechanics who dowse to determine mechanical problems in cars, and other machinery and maintenance workers who use dowsing to find underground water lines, leaks, and electrical problems.
    • Periodically, a player will get to dowse for water.
    • Ms. Byron: your article on the woman who claims she can dowse, interests us greatly.
    • Do not worry, young Alouette, you may be lost now, however just take the pendant and dowse, it will show you the way.
    • Here are two examples - one from Australia, the other from Germany - that involve dowsing to supposedly locate or provide information about alleged archaeological sites.
    • Since at the time I could not dowse with a pendulum, I had no way of confirming if I was successful.
    • Now he happily dowses for earth-radiation with a pair of rods.
    1. 1.1with object Search for or discover by dowsing.
      he dowsed a spiral of energy on the stone
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Temple assures clients that the stones are the real thing; he knows because he dowsed them with a magic pendulum, of course.
      • So one Sunday morning soon after sunrise we entered the field and made our examinations, buried the bottles and dowsed the formation.
      • The experts in this dowsers' society say you can successfully dowse anything at all.
      • Boomtowns sprang up through the United States, particularly in the West, as fast as entrepreneurial spirits could dowse a whiff of extractable resource hiding below the earth's surface.
      • The moments of small victory are often limited to a shopping cart that stays when it is told to or sending a small hope before dowsing the wine aisle for a good vintage.
      Synonyms
      search, look, seek, hunt, go after

Origin

Late 17th century: of unknown origin.

dowse2

verbdaʊzdouz
  • variant spelling of douse
 
 
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